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I recently received a complimentary email from a friend who is an accomplished author. She was responding to a post of mine entitled ‘I’m over the moon‘ and it led to a discussion about the English language. ‘Congrats James! Have you joined Goodreads yet? Hey is jewelry mis-spelled or the British version? “He is now Chairman […]

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Hi, I’m James King, an Englishman who emigrated to South Africa in 1995. I was lucky that my work took me all over the Country, where I visited Cities, townships and rural areas, learning about the culture and lives of the people, after apartheid.

I moved to Thailand in 2011 where I live in semi-retirement. I created a blog in 2013, wrote books and learned the craft of landscape photography. All have been hobbies and great fun.

My life has been somewhat fractured and rather unconventional. Looking back I’m amazed at the varied people I’ve met. Politicians, sports stars, music impresarios, business tycoons, murderers, fraudsters, creatives of all sorts and even hired assassins. They have unwittingly provided rare material which has helped me so much in my writing.

After cutting my teeth on blogging, writing non-fiction travel books about Thailand and poetry I discovered a fascination for suspense drama. I started working on a story with a literary bent and character-driven suspense with twists, thrills and emotion. It has since developed into a fiction series and the first book in the series is due to be published early in 2018.

Writing poetry is wonderfully relaxing. I find myself drifting from the romantic to fear for the survival of our broken world to human rights and the darkness of death. Music, film, and literature have been a great inspiration. Shakespeare, Dickens, Hesse, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, among others, have all had a profound influence on my life at some point and ultimately find their way into my writing as I try to deliver my message.

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